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Ikai

Endflame · PM Studios, inc. · 2022-03-29

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AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Mar 30, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Mar 29, 2022 (Xbox One), Mar 29, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 29, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 29, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Mar 29, 2022 (Nintendo Switch)

Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.

Ikai is a 2022 Adventure and Indie game priced at $14.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (80% of 267 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

1
playing now
80%
positive of 267 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
3.69★
PlayStation Store rating (187 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Rumors have spread even through the most skeptical villagers, giving way to fear and hysteria. It’s not just a matter of gossip this time. The blood-stained leaves indicate that evil creatures are getting closer and closer to humans. It is believed that a new demon has turned up in the underworld. Its will is to cross the doorway into our world as soon as it finds what it is looking for. Such a situation requires the priest to head to the village, leaving the shrine under his niece’s control, the priestess. The crowd’s fear hasn’t reached the shrine far away in the mountains, where the priest(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (57 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 29,161 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.3k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 267 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.99 at Humble Store (2022-11-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 7 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
454520222026Week of 2022-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$5.992022-03-292026-10-092022-03-29 — best price $12.742022-05-13 — best price $10.492022-06-18 — best price $14.992022-07-07 — best price $14.992022-08-19 — best price $10.492022-09-12 — best price $14.992022-11-01 — best price $14.992022-11-14 — best price $7.502022-11-29 — best price $14.992022-12-13 — best price $11.242023-01-06 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $8.992023-05-23 — best price $14.992023-08-25 — best price $7.492023-09-10 — best price $14.992023-11-21 — best price $10.492023-12-21 — best price $8.992024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-07-18 — best price $8.992024-08-10 — best price $14.992024-10-24 — best price $7.492024-11-02 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $10.492024-12-19 — best price $8.992025-02-22 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-05-24 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $7.492025-11-03 — best price $14.992026-02-16 — best price $7.492026-03-17 — best price $7.502026-04-01 — best price $14.992026-08-14 — best price $7.502026-09-04 — best price $14.992026-09-25 — best price $14.992026-10-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
90.6%
earned "Village protector"
19.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)51249%21
PS5 (PlayStation)37346%21
Steam (Steam)3484%20
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)23035%20
PS4 (PlayStation)22958%21
PS4 (PlayStation)18849%21
PS5 (PlayStation)2580%21
PS4 (PlayStation)1989%21
Switch (Nintendo)50%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DarkActionHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureStory RichAtmosphericExplorationFirst-Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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